Message From Io

I’m going to open Rhea orders this weekend. Probably on Sunday. There is a problem though.

I was planning on making some devices before opening orders to be able to ship everything quickly, before December. This didn’t work out as I got busy with work-related projects and it’s not looking to improve soon. What it means is I only got a handful of Rheas assembled and really not much free time to do the rest. In fact I even considered postponing the whole thing until January but there is no guarantee I won’t be equally busy after the New Year so…

This is what I’m going to do: Take orders now, ship what little I have and can still make, then leave the rest for January. I will not be shipping anything past first week of December, preferably not even past end of November. It’s a waste of my time since there will be long queues at the post offices everywhere and the shipping time is also longer, and on the top of it the chances of the package getting lost or damaged are considerably higher as well. I should be able to assemble something in that time though.

A lot of high storage capacity SD cards on the market are rubbish, that misrepresent their actual capacity and have very poor random I/O speeds.

Poor quality and fake SD and microSD cards are rife on the market, finding something genuine and reliable is difficult. Buying a brand name from a reputable source and spending more gives a better chance of success, but fakes enter the chain quite early, so even this does not guarantee anything. But anything that looks too good to be true, probably is. Expect to pay quite handsomely for 256GB SD.

That said, I have seen posts on here of people having success with certain 128GB cards, though I can’t find them right now.

Just wanted to chime in I got this same card to work too. Formatted it with Fat32 (large) with rufus (left the bootloader stuff disabled) and works great! Even benchmarked 93mb/s seq read and 74mb/s seq write which is damn good for SD!

Hi, Does anybody have any tips for creating cdi images for the rhea on the newest version of windows 10?
Since the new update rolled out, version 4.00 of Daemon tools doesn’t work anymore.
And Newer versions of daemon tools f***k up the cdi image somehow. making it unreadable for the rhea.
I also tried Alcohol for mdf/mds files but to no avail.

I don’t realy want to go back to windows 7
Any Solution would be appreciated

It’s only ‘best’ if done properly and that implies a rip of an original disc. Otherwise it’s just a format like any other. Also, Clone CD format is pretty well supported too, as should be Alcohol but I don’t use this program so it’s not as well tested.

I know this has been discussed before, but I’m looking for a big SD card for my RHEA. If you’ve been using a 128GB card for a long time and haven’t had any problems with it, can you please provide a link to the exact card you have? Preferably an Amazon link. Thanks.

Man, I missed my window again 😞. Well anyway thank you for all your work gdemu. Gonna try and catch the next window. I got 3 dead dreamcasts meaning all gd roms are dead and all are version 1. I’ll buy a gdemu for one of them. Have you considered having someone manufacturing your units? I believe krikzz at the everdrive store does the same with ikari’s sd2snes, just a thought. Don’t wanna get banned. But it could alleviate your work load.

Bit of a random question but I got mixed up on which of my Dreamcasts was working/broken and was wondering if moving the V0 power board into the V1 with the busted board could damage the GDEMU? Both systems are from the same region (NSTC).

Thanks for the confirmation, but unfortunately it was the fuse on the controller port board and not the PSU like I had thought. With those fans, boards, and shells being different enough between the consoles to make the switch more of a hassle I’ll just wait for a new fuse in the mail. Thanks again!

I got RHEA. Thanks very much.
But saturn does not recognize some disc(darius gaiden ,etc…) as a saturn disc.
RMENU is recognized as saturn disc, but saturn is recognized as cd+g disc.
I used disc juggler6 and 4 – advanced option Scan gaps/indexes , R-W(CD+G),PQ and RAW read was checked.
I tried CloneCD, change saturn VA1 to VA0 and change SD Card, but same result.
I ripped CD from LG DVD drive and PLEXTOR CD drive, but same.
RHEA farmware is 3.8.1
Please give advice.
Thank you.

You dont need to do the 50/60hz wiring to the Rhea to play imports. when you turn region patching on that takes care of it. all of your games will load in 60hz automatically, or if you have a pal console, 50hz.

the 50/60 switching is only if you want your console to switch standards to match what the original game played in. I dont know why you would want to do this, but still its there.

Try to backup an original with Clone CD.
Then use the backup with Rhea.
Also you can use RMENU v0.1.3 from https://gdemu.wordpress.com/links/
If the game works fine, it was a bad ISO downloaded.
You can also try to make a Clone CD backup of a ISO from the web by Deamon Tool + Clone CD.
Rhea seems to like a lot Clone CD backups.

Okay, first: Use email and not comments for help. Or go to ASG forums. Second, for JP console you need to have “auto_region = 0” in your INI file. Third, did you actually run the menu executable to scan your card and add games to the list?

I’m using the Rhea Menu mod and it works okay now
DiscJuggler crashes on startup with both of my computer (32bit and 64bit) so I can’t convert my .bin files into .cdi
I made it work with UltraISO in .mdf